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08-04-2023, 07:40 PM
The wildfires sweeping Canada have become the largest in its modern history. Across the country, 30 million acres of forest have burned — three times as much land as in the worst American fire in the past 50 years.
The scale has forced an international response and a re-evaluation of how the world handles wildfires.
Firefighters on the front lines discuss the challenges they face, and David Wallace-Wells, a climate columnist for The Times, explores how climate change has shifted thinking about wildfires.
Guest: David Wallace-Wells (https://www.nytimes.com/column/david-wallace-wells), a climate columnist for The New York Times.
Background reading:
With most of Canada’s fire season still ahead, the (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/opinion/climate-canada-wildfires-emissions.html)country is on track to produce more carbon emissions from the burning of forests (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/opinion/climate-canada-wildfires-emissions.html) than all of its other human and industrial activities combined, David Wallace-Wells writes in Times Opinion.
Canada’s record-breaking wildfire season shows the need to shift from suppressing fires to preventing them (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/world/canada/canada-wildfire-fighting.html) as they become more difficult to combat.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily). Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
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The scale has forced an international response and a re-evaluation of how the world handles wildfires.
Firefighters on the front lines discuss the challenges they face, and David Wallace-Wells, a climate columnist for The Times, explores how climate change has shifted thinking about wildfires.
Guest: David Wallace-Wells (https://www.nytimes.com/column/david-wallace-wells), a climate columnist for The New York Times.
Background reading:
With most of Canada’s fire season still ahead, the (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/opinion/climate-canada-wildfires-emissions.html)country is on track to produce more carbon emissions from the burning of forests (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/opinion/climate-canada-wildfires-emissions.html) than all of its other human and industrial activities combined, David Wallace-Wells writes in Times Opinion.
Canada’s record-breaking wildfire season shows the need to shift from suppressing fires to preventing them (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/21/world/canada/canada-wildfire-fighting.html) as they become more difficult to combat.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily). Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
أكثر... (https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily)